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took about 22 seconds for me, but seemed to stall for about 5 seconds in the middle of loading :-P

Took 6 seconds with Internet Download Manager. By the time I fired up ACDSee, the file was there (running win8.1 on SSD)

do you have a HDD? perhaps that's memory to disk caching. I have ZERO clue, just guessing.